Someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
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Examples for "peddler "
Examples for "peddler "
1 A peddler aye gives the whole village a fit of the liberalities.
2 Accidental message peddler Gracewood says she never expected to be doing this.
3 The peddler nodded and continued his pitch in whatever language he spoke.
4 Henry reluctantly restrained his impatience, and followed the direction of the peddler .
5 It was the peddler , with ashen face and eyes rolling with fear.
1 And almost immediately I heard a cart pass, and a hawker crying:
2 The hawker , noticing my worry, called out that they were his pets.
3 Just then a hawker passed down King Street, crying mussels and cockles.
4 Two hawker street stalls in Singapore have been awarded a Michelin star.
5 Ethiopian, Israeli, Afghani and Malaysian hawker food restaurants are among other new options.
1 He is in a little book that I bought of the pedlar .
2 The pedlar was moving quickly away with his hands in his pockets.
3 He then turned a pedlar , in which situation the Revolution found him.
4 These Hainaulters could see no difference between us and the average pedlar .
5 Thine eyes and half thy tongue are in the pedlar 's pack, Magot.
1 The pitchman 's scowl was a menace; his voice bitter: Go on, scram.
2 Boswellister slipped away while the pitchman started to collect a new crowd.
3 The pitchman smiled with flawless teeth and the women smiled back at him.
4 The pitchman must make you applaud and take out your money.
5 Now, the president sounds like a pitchman for the donor class.
1 They employed Mr Vaughan as a packman , to transport their goods.
2 You're an active packman , for they tell me you're never off the road.
3 However, private mail still goes by packman or common carrier.
4 I'm a truthful man, but I'll lie like a packman if I'm asked questions.
5 A packman was leading a train of donkeys inside.
6 I'll lee like a Scotch packman , and the Father o' lees could do nae mair.
7 Do you think that a cavalier's arm is to be bought like a packman 's ware.
8 Where is that damnable Scots packman ?
9 Out of the gig came the sack, and out of the sack speedily came the packman 's erstwhile acquaintance, Jock.
10 I will now turn in, father, to be ready to send off the fish as soon as the packman comes.
11 He thinks Beaufort's loyalty is to be bought like a packman 's ware, or bullied out of him by ruffling words.
12 A packman whom I thawed yesterday at my kitchen fire tells me that last Sabbath only the Auld Lichts held service.
13 I met an old packman on the road, and he tells me there are some persons in this village of my name.
14 Dandy Jim, the packman , was a young fellow who wanted more than evil weather and a dreich, black night to depress him.
15 That very night twelve months ago the packman was murdered at Broken Buss, and Easie Pettie hanged herself on the stump of a tree.
16 Timely warning was thus often given by a returning packman to a feeble and unsuspecting settlement, of the perfidy and cruelty meditated against it.
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